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    NDUSTRY

    igital HealthERTICAL

    ersonal Health Monitoring Devices

    ECHNOLOGY

    ellspec is a company that provides

    redictive intelligence about food.

    brings together NIR spectroscopy

    nd deep learning in a revolution-

    ry system that can tell whats in

    ny food. Tellspec filed a U.S. patent

    pplication on August 5, 2013, for

    s method of analyzing and cor-

    elating spectra, identifying

    amples and their ingredients,

    nd displaying related

    ersonalized information.

    XECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

    abel Hoffmann

    EO and Founder

    ason Coulls

    P Software

    ail Gannon

    P Strategy

    ark Bloore

    enior Software Architect

    azanin Samadifard

    Machine Learning Manager

    DVISORY BOARD

    ouis Florence, Ph.D.

    nance Advisor

    r. Rafael Grossmann, M.D.

    ealth Advisor

    athaniel Amsellem

    uropean Investor Advisor

    arry R. Wilson

    orth America Investment Advisor

    ames Tjan

    ood Science Advisor

    mon Mou

    sia Investment Advisor

    OTAL PEOPLE INVOLVED

    5

    ONTACT

    abel Hoffmann, CEO & Founder

    16 666 5028

    [email protected]

    ellspec.com

    WHATS IN YOUR FOOD?

    You want to know whats in your food before you buy it and before you eat it because the quality of your health depends what you eat. Many foods contain ingredients that you want to avoid, such as allergens, refined carbohydrates and trans fats, it can be difficult to know whether these are in your food. How can you tell how many calories are in a serving of home-cookfood? Food labels can give us some information, if theyre available, but they are not always intelligible and some ingrediemay not even be reported.

    Tellspec provides you with the most relevant and useful information about what is in your food so you can make an informdecision that better matches your dietary needs. Tellspecs food sensor scans food at the molecular level; from that scan, analysis engine detects allergens, calories, macronutrients, and sugars and provides relevant nutritional information such as glycemic index. Tellspec also helps avoid known allergens or narrow down potential food intolerances.

    Each time you scan food products, you not only learn about whats in your food, you also help others learn whats in their foTellspecs food analysis system compiles all the data analyzed and learns from each scan, making the analysis more accuraand more detailed with each scan.

    OPPORTUNITY

    Tellspecs technology enables those that who desire weight loss to automatically track their calories and identify food sensiities by simply scanning their food. It also helps diabetic or pre-diabetic patients to analyze their diet, and in particular tracalories and carbohydrates as well as fibre, so they can adjust their insulin doses accordingly.

    Global diabetes market is expected to reach $44.70 bill ion in 2015, compound annual growth rate of 7.5%. The W.H.O. forecathat the worlds diabetic population will reach 366 million by 2030. The market for food allergy and intolerance is estimated Global Industry Analysts to be US$26.5bn by 2017. This market has grown at 18.5% over the past decade.

    NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION IN YOUR POCKET

    Tellspecs mobile application includes a searchable online database of authoritative information on thousands of food ingredieand their impact on health. This encyclopedia is the educational companion to the Tellspec food sensor and can be used wout the actual scanner, making Tellspec mobile application a powerful new tool for personal and institutional health educatio

    MANAGEMENT

    Isabel Hoffmannis an executive with experience and success in leading and scaling early-stage businesses. In the past years, Isabel has founded eight companies in the fields of preventive medicine, genetics, technology, and education in the NoAmerican, European, and South American markets. She has negotiated strategic investments with groups such as CBS Cor

    ration and Mitsubishi International, and raised equity investment and convertible debenture notes. She was also the main stragic negotiator on several business acquisitions, including a US$28M acquisition of Corel Multimedia business division. Her maawards include: Ernst and Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year (1996) and MacLeans Honor Role for Canadian Excellence (199

    Jason Coulls, VP Software, is a software engineer who has worked in the mobile space since its inception in the late 1990having progressed through Palm OS, Blackberry, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, and now iOS. His biggest contributionconsumer mobile software comes from working on Clear Channels iHeartRadio product (now called iHeartMedia) supportover 4+ million users.

    Gail Gannon, VP Strategy, is a seasoned healthcare industry entrepreneur, well connected to KOLs in private and public stors, and she has a strong reputation for conducting due diligence and negotiating agreements with entities ranging from staups to Fortune 500 companies to global health agencies, e.g. OneWorld Health-PATH, Gates Foundation.

    Mark Bloore, Senior Software Architect, has over 30 years of experience in software design and development in many arefrom applications to systems to API creation, from microcontrollers to iOS apps.

    Nazanin Samadifard, Machine Learning Manager, is an accomplished scientist with extensive knowledge and experiencemultidisciplinary research, programming, machine learning, and data analytics. She has a M.Sc. degree in Physics from tUniversity of Ottawa and M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto.